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India
- Defining Global Talent Flows
Shantanu Bhagwat

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A Dramatic Change in Perceptions

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“Do you have computers in India?”

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A Dramatic Change in Perceptions

The “Re-Emergence” of India

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The Re-Emergence of India…

“While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output
in 1750, this figure had fallen to only 2 percent by 1900.“

“India’s Deindustrialisation in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, David
Clingingsmith and Jeffrey G Williamson

In 1830s, Bengal alone had 100,000 schools and a fairly

advanced indigenous medical system that included inoculation
against small-pox*

…not just that, the literary rate in India before the British (c. 18th
century) was higher than that in England*

http://www.newindpress.com/column/News.asp?Topic=97&Title=S%2EGurumurthy&ID=IE620061115230938&nDate=&Sub=&Cat
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The Re-Emergence of India…

"China and India combined to produce nearly half the world's
economic output in 1820 compared to just 1.8% for the U.S.

Michael Milken, Wall Street Journal, Sept ‘06

“After two centuries of Western domination, China and India are

poised to claim their places”

“The Great Reverse”, Clyde Prestowitz

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The “Re-Emergence” of India

Many more Argonauts

The demographic dividend

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The “Demographic Dividend”

Overall Growth ~ 23%

1,268m

1,200
1,027m
Population (m)

800 811m
Growth ~ 36%
598m

400

0
2001 2016
0 to 14 yrs 15 to 59 yrs 60 yrs & above

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Many more “Argonauts”…

Source: Sylvester J Schieber, VP, Watson Wyatt http://www.ssab.gov/immigration-forum/documents/SCHIEBER-0905.pdf 9

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Young, Smart and Footloose…

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NSI - The “Non-Stationary” Indian

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A Dramatic Change in Perceptions

The “Re-Emergence” of India

Many more Argonauts

The demographic dividend

Immigration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Migrants, by definition, are more risk-taking…

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Immigration, Innovation and

Entrepreneurship…

Over the past 15 years, 25 percent of U.S. public companies that were
VC-backed were started by immigrants.

Although legal immigrants account only for 8.7% of the population

Some of these companies include Google, Yahoo, eBay, Sun
Microsystems, Intel and Solectron

Together these companies account for an impressive market cap
exceeding $500 billion.

However, two-thirds of respondents said “U.S. immigration policy has
made it increasingly difficult to start a business in America” and “a
nearly-equal percentage felt that the visa policies, particularly the
limited number of H1-B visas allotted to companies “harm American
competitiveness.””

What will be even more interesting to watch is the effect of some of

these immigrants returning back to their countries of origin – particularly
in terms of the impact that they will have on their “home” economies…

* Source: NVCA, Red Herring and http://global-themes.com/immigration-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/ 13

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Agenda

A Dramatic Change in Perceptions

The “Re-Emergence” of India

Many more Argonauts

The demographic dividend

Immigration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Migrants, by definition, are more risk-taking…

Links between UK and India

Gnarled branches of a huge banyan tree…

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UK and India…

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Thank you…

Shantanu Bhagwat @ www.global-themes.com

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